Racial Profiling By New Bedford Police Alleged in New Report
Racial Profiling By New Bedford Police Alleged in New Report A new report from a youth advocacy group, Citizens for Juvenile Justice, alleges that New Bedford Police stopped, frisked, or questioned Black people at significantly higher rates than white people. The data was gleaned from almost 5,000 field incident reports compiled from 2015 to June 2020. The reports were obtained through a public records request. The report, entitled "We Are the Prey: Racial Profiling and Policing of Youth in New Bedford," alleges that 46 percent of those "field incidents" involved Blacks. "That shows that ther...
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